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Christmas & The New Year: Re-double your focus 12:23am Wednesday 03 December 2008 - Ross Clennett |
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HR Futures Conference 2009 8:57pm Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Recruitment Directory I have been asked by a industry colleague of mine Michael Specht, to speak at the upcoming HR Futures Conference in Feb 2009. The Inspecht HR Futures Conference brings together speakers covering all areas of HR, Recruiting and Technology to discuss how social media, innovation, culture and technology empower, attract, engage and evolve employees. |
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Michael Page to launch new brand in Australia; JobAdder wins Peoplebank deal; plus more  5:03pm Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Shortlist News Michael Page to launch Page Personnel in Australia.... JobAdder wins Peoplebank contract.... Finite IT Canberra office grows sales 80% in FY08.... Most employers risking legal action with poorly handled redundancies: Harmers.... Employers willing to train unskilled but motivated candidates: Jobfind. |
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Employer branding pays for itself after the first few years: Cement Australia 3:06pm Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Shortlist News Developing an employer branding program is expensive but if done well, it more than pays for itself after a few years, says Cement Australia talent development manager Hanno Nieuwoudt. |
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Workforce development in public and private sector 12:29pm Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Michael Specht A couple of weeks ago Kate Carruthers spoke to me about workforce development programs, the results are an article she published on the NSW TAFE eZine web site, under the heading of “Workforce development: Case studies in private and public sector implementation“. Workforce development is a key issue for both private and public sector businesses. Previously [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Workforce development in public and private sector", url: "http://specht.com.au/michael/2008/12/02/workforce-development-in-public-and-private-sector/" }); |
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Economic uncertainty separates winning organisations from losers 11:45am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - HR Daily Now is the time to give top priority to strategic talent management, because the economic uncertainty provides opportunities for smart organisations to grow, human capital advisors say. |
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Aussie talent fleeing UK for "the great unknown" 10:16am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - HR Daily Australian finance professionals fleeing the UK downturn are returning to the "great unknown", with local skilled vacancies plunging to a 15-year low, according to a business-to-employee communications expert. |
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The marketing begins 8:39am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Michael Specht This morning we launched the start of the formal marketing program of the event, some minor activities have already been done. First up was the distribution of a press release to a group of journalists and bloggers in Australia and New Zealand. A single page overview PDF is also available for download, think of it as a [...] |
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Build lasting relationships with your candidates 6:55am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Recruiter Daily Growing use of social networks and other tools to access candidates makes it more crucial than ever that recruiters provide memorable service that will engender loyalty, says The Clarity Group director, Melissa Martin. |
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Job site traffic falls, WorkPac settles restraint case 6:41am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Recruiter Daily Visits to Australia's job boards were down by more than five per cent last month, but SEEK's traffic held firm, the latest Nielsen statistics show. |
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Web 2.0 in recruitment – Thomas Shaw 6:38am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Michael Specht How is Web 2.0 influencing and delivering recruitment efficiencies to organisations? Technology is moving at a rapid rate and the challenge for all is how to use these new tools to engage and attract candidates. This is a dynamic session with real examples. Thomas will give an overview of how to use Web 2.0 tools in [...] |
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Talent Tidbits 1:51am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Destination Talent HR – most incompetent profession in Australia? A stinging attack on the HR department. Malcolm King wrote “If the Australian HR industry was a soccer team, it would be struggling to win a game in the 4th division”. Ouch. Also, check the comments page too. Disabled workers continues to get a raw deal Workforce participation rate of disabled [...] |
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2discover Facebook Application 1:07am Tuesday 02 December 2008 - Recruitment Directory This is another one of my favourite applications I created for a client earier this year. 2discover is a executive recruitment agency based in Sydney. The brief was quite simple - create a Facebook application that enhanced the 2discover brand which is visually apealing, easy to use, and non intrusive to users |
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Recruitment Blogs 10:10pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Recruitment Directory It started with an small idea, and has suddenly grown into a syndication machine... Last week, I was thinking about a way I can subscribe to all blogs/news sources - organised by the time they were posted, easy to find, as well as the ability to share the information with other colleagues as easy as possible. Recruitment Blogs was born. |
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Sheelagh McKenzie Facebook Application 9:45pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Recruitment Directory It's not often I brag or show off work I have completed for a client, but I couldn't resist this one. I was engaged by a allied health recruitment agency called Sheelagh McKenzie earlier this year to create a Facebook Application as well as a social networking strategy. |
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Twitter and Recruitment 6:14pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Recruitment Directory A few weeks ago, I resigned up for Twitter to see how much it has changed since I was last actively "tweeting" on the website. There has been a lot of discussion about whether Twitter is useful, fun or just a fad. |
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Skills shortage may ease slightly, but it's here to stay: Clarius 4:33pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Shortlist News Despite continuing news of an economic downturn and accelerating job losses, detailed new research from Clarius indicates that a structural skills shortage will sustain demand for candidates. |
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Case study on informal learning - Jasmin Tragas from IBM 4:19pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Michael Specht Organisations are addressing new pressures, such as reduced training and travel budgets, attracting a new generation of employees and knowledge transfer in a global, mobile, maturing workforce. Jasmin will be sharing some global informal learning initiatives from IBM with examples using web2.0 and virtual worlds such as SecondLife. Jasmin will also share from her own [...] |
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The Australian Job Board Landscape 3:35pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Capital Jobs This excellent presentation was produced by Phillip Tusing from Destination Talent (http://www.destinationtalent.com.au/blog), an industry blog that provides ‘musings, riffs, rants and insights on everything ‘talent’ in Australia’. The presentation provides some insight into the future of online recruitment in Australia. It seems that the future is bright for online job boards. Australian Job Board Landscape View [...] |
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SEEK holds job seeker traffic; Adcorp wins Country Energy deal; plus more 3:26pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Shortlist News SEEK holds job seeker traffic while News, Fairfax lose ground.... Adcorp wins Country Energy advertising deal.... Defence targets high schoolers with work experience scheme.... Drake International joins indigenous employment task force.... Strong employer brand will flow through to sales: Alexander Mann. |
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Meet Brett Iredale from Job Adder 1:20pm Monday 01 December 2008 - Michael Specht Following last weeks interview with Kevin Howard from Jobs in HR today we have another local recruitment expert Brett Iredale. Brett runs the successful automated job posting system JobAdder and as you will see from the interview an early adopter of technology. While the last few interviews have been focused on recruiting I am working to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Meet Brett Iredale from Job Adder", url: "http://specht.com.au/michael/2008/12/01/meet-brett-iredale-from-job-adder/" }); |
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Way of the future: "HR with attitude" 11:47am Monday 01 December 2008 - HR Daily Businesses demanding more from their HR function should hire professionals who are "credible activists" and "have attitude", according to an international study. |
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Monster news: afterthoughts 10:56am Monday 01 December 2008 - LatinOcean - What is the current theoretical value of 50% of career one? Any guesses? - Sounds like this is take 2 of ‘feed the monster’ strategy (with resumes, that is) which might just put another local resume database product out there - I guess the product and tech guys at C1 if any, are now gone / [...] |
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Write a job ad that attracts your target market 6:40am Monday 01 December 2008 - Recruiter Daily Jobseekers are essentially consumers, so recruiters should approach job ad writing as they would a marketing exercise, according to Six Figures director Kelly Magowan. |
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PageUp People CEO recognised as top entrepreneur 6:12am Monday 01 December 2008 - Recruiter Daily PageUp People CEO and co-founder Karen Cariss has been named the Ernst and Young 2008 Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year. |
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Refferal Recruiting - A conversation with Riges Younan of 2Vouch 1:46am Monday 01 December 2008 - Destination Talent Talented people are valued not just for their skills, experience and expertise, but also for their networks. Often, the adage ‘good people know other good people’ is true (see slide 11). Referral programs in different forms has been in place for a long time to attract and recruit talent. The recruitment industry, in particular, thrives largely [...] |
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Panel: Future of Recruiting 10:07am Saturday 29 November 2008 - Michael Specht To finish the day we will have a panel dicussion on the Future of Recuriting. This final session will bring together Thomas Shaw CEO of Recruitment Directory, Riges Younan CEO of 2Vouch, Geoff Jennings Director & Founder of Online Recruitment and David Talamelli Senior Recruiter from Oracle Corporation. Each panel member will have three minutes to give you their vision of recruitment [...] |
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Panel: Branding & Social Media and its impact on HR 10:04am Saturday 29 November 2008 - Michael Specht Late in the day we will have a panel dicussion on Branding and Social Media. This final session will bring together some of our speakers from the day, Stephen Collins, Sean Lew, Jasmin Tragas, and Anne Barlett-Bragg in a 30 minutes interactive question and answer session. This session provides you the chance to explore topics from the day [...] |
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Keynote - Stephen Collins 10:01am Saturday 29 November 2008 - Michael Specht To kick off our action packed day the opening keynote will be from Stephen Collins. Stephen will provide us with insight into the internationally renowned invitation only event TED 2009, sharing the key messages and ideas that will shape business over the year to come. Stephen will stretch your thinking about business in knowledge economy covering HR, Recruiting, Knowledge [...] |
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Dress for Success Workshop - Discriminatory? 8:55am Saturday 29 November 2008 - Annemarie Cross A recent Dress for Success workshop Ernst & Young ran especially for their female staff members (to help them reach their full potential at work) has sparked several angry forum comments stating they find this move discriminating, outrageous and downright rude. I quote: “To insinuate that in order for women to reach there full potential they must [...] |
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Australian HR Related Twitter Users 5:18pm Friday 28 November 2008 - Michael Specht I have been wondering for a while how many HR related Twitter users are there in Australia? Well instead of just wondering I pulled together this list, if I have missed anyone just feel free to add them using the form below. Loading… SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Australian HR Related Twitter Users", url: "http://specht.com.au/michael/2008/11/28/australian-hr-related-twitter-users/" }); |
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OneMonster. What does it mean? 4:37pm Friday 28 November 2008 - Jobadder So the Monster is back. No great surprises that Monster have re entered the Australian market. The interesting thing is how they have done it and what this means for CareerOne advertisers and for CareerOne's competitors. A few obvious questions are: [...] |
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Adcorp flags profit decline; Forstaff not responsible for Qantas accident; plus more 3:45pm Friday 28 November 2008 - Shortlist News Adcorp flags profit decline.... Forstaff not responsible for Qantas accident.... Queensland should work harder to recruit interstate: Michael Page.... Graduates still going to job boards first: Universum.... PageUp People founder wins national business award.... IPA wins accolade for CSR efforts.... Robert Half fills key roles.... LinkMe introduces outplacement portal. |
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Inspecht HR Futures Conference 2:34pm Friday 28 November 2008 - Michael Specht A quick update on the conference idea from last week. Based on feedback and discussions it have been named “Inspecht HR Futures Conference” and will bring together speakers covering all areas of HR, Recruiting and Technology to discuss how social media, innovation, culture and technology empower, attract, engage and evolve employees. More information is below. Conference site [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Inspecht HR Futures Conference", url: "http://specht.com.au/michael/2008/11/28/inspecht-hr-futures-conference/" }); |
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Reframing Professional Development with Enterprise 2.0 – Anne Bartlett-Bragg 2:14pm Friday 28 November 2008 - Michael Specht Smarter, simpler, and social professional development landscapes can achieve results that more expensive controlled learning and performance systems have failed to deliver. Integrating social software can generate powerful networks - from simple individual actions that create an ‘architecture of participation’, to links that connect people for a common purpose. Weblogs, wikis, social bookmarking and tagging [...] |
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